Thank you for this. Here in the UK we're told *not* to compost animal remains but that makes no sense to me - I thought soil loved blood and bones. Great to see you use techniques to do it safely.

@thebluebutterfly5177

2 жыл бұрын

Uk watcher here also. Soil is there to use anything organic matter.

@Sandstar942

2 жыл бұрын

Yup! My last town didn't let us compost animal waste due to the concern of how much space they had and percentages of material. Much easier on a small municipality to just use carbon and vegetation. In the city I'm in now you are only restricted on animal waste. No litter no urine no feces. All else is fine 🙂

@Sandstar942

2 жыл бұрын

And to add - time. My smaller town needed turnover to be fast! Here it doesn't matter if it sits for the time it takes to break down blood and meat. Also as he said - more management and knowledge needed. :)

@Sandstar942

2 жыл бұрын

I can't wait to be able to have composting experiments.... we compost our dog waste ourselves for the flower beds (not risking it on edibles) but sooooon

@AnnaLVajda

2 жыл бұрын

In reality there is lots of gore to farm life even roses thrive from "bone meal" people think horror movies desensitize kids to violence but I woke up one morning with my Dad and brother bleeding a pig out hanging from a tree when I was 6 or so because we have to eat this winter. We moved from the city to save my brothers from joining violent gangs but they co op at butcher shops and black smiths instead slaughtering forging weapons and such.

I seem to remember in school learning that native Americans would bury fish when planting corn. Basically composting in place. Also, I read a scientific paper describing how important the salmon run is to the forest because bears and eagles leave fish carcases littered way up from river banks, which decomposes and feeds the soil.

@JoRoBoYo

11 ай бұрын

fruit tree often grow on graveyard, people eat the fruit just fine. 😂

I love that y'all show composting with animal remains. It is such a taboo subject, but the earth needs all of it's nutrients replaced. Animal remains are a great source of nutrients! Thanks for sharing.

One tip is if freshly starting a compost, to substitute the introducing of bacteria by adding old compost, you can use yeast, just dissolve a couple tablespoons in a 20 gallon lawn sprayer and spray every layer you lay. The yeast will feed on all the natural occurring sugars

@davidlillecrapp2960

Жыл бұрын

How about adding leaf mould.

@zakaijohnson9421

Жыл бұрын

​@@davidlillecrapp2960yes

This is a great video! I composted my favorite roosters offels when I had to butcher him for attacking . I take the blood and put it around my trees and in my Garden ! No waste ! We are so blessed to be able to feed our soil ! For me , blood added to the garden is blood Meal! Once I break the chicken down for broth and do bone broth , I’m gonna dry the bones to grind up as bone meal!

@shylakalbacher2164

2 жыл бұрын

Hi Amanda! What do you use hone meal for?

@amandaforeman2626

2 жыл бұрын

@@shylakalbacher2164 bone meal adds phosphorus to the soil and blood adds nitrogen !

@The.Branch.Ranch5

2 жыл бұрын

How do you dry them? What a great idea

@amandaforeman2626

2 жыл бұрын

@@The.Branch.Ranch5 dehydrator :) I leave mine outside so I don’t stink up the house lol

@The.Branch.Ranch5

2 жыл бұрын

@@amandaforeman2626 lmao good thinking. How do you know when they're ready? Do you have to blend them or do they disintegrate on their own once dried?

I never had a problem composting meat/bone scraps from the kitchen. Plants grow their roots around and through old bones.

Animal protein makes some of the richest soil. When I first started composting several decades ago, I lived in town. At that time I was told not to compost anything but vegetation because everything else would attract animals into my yard and that it would stink. Fast forward to today and I live in the country. Meat by products are getting composted. Actually our fish carcasses and entrails are getting buried immediately around our rhubarb plants and we get great rhubarb every year. No problems with wild life getting into our compost or odor. With any type of compost, it needs to have that drier vegetation (carbon) mixed in with it like you've used the wood shavings. Otherwise all you'll have is a garbage dump pile. Josh, with all of the chores you do daily, would you really have time to turn the pile every day? You're far from being lazy. Thank you for sharing this and if done properly, you get rid of waste and end up with BLACK GOLD. God bless you and your beautiful family 😊 Mickey

@katewizer2736

2 жыл бұрын

I completely agree!

@sometimessnarky1642

2 жыл бұрын

I've been told to only use vegetation as well and I thought it sounded stupid since animals die in the wild all the time and things grow BETTER after they decompose. So it made no sense to me why having meat (non GMO funky meat) in your compost pile be a bad thing.

@seanpenn4405

2 жыл бұрын

@@sometimessnarky1642 there's literally nothing wrong with GMO foods. I think most people don't understand how GMO's are used for food and food specifically. Does the term "selective pollination" or "selective breeding" ring a more comfortable bell for you? GMO insecticides and fertilizers I can't speak to however

@BLAQFiniks

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanpenn4405 they genetically modify not only food nowadays, fyi. Btw, selective breeding does not involve inserting foreign species' genes into food, i.e. tomatoes with scorpion genes supposedly to better ward of disease, roundup-ready corn or soy with its highly unhealthy chemicals already inside not to die off by external addition of same chemicals, etc. - THAT imho is NOT good~

@seanpenn4405

2 жыл бұрын

@@BLAQFiniks care to show where they've done that?

Yep, it's all about the ratios. Even large bones can be dealt with, first by composting or cooking to get the oil out, them covering it in wet ash. You may need to mix it every other day, but the wet ash dissolves the bones.

@damianhackett4761

Жыл бұрын

Nice one

Thanks so much for this video Josh! My brother and I had this discussion once and he said it couldn't be done. As you were showing, when done correctly, you can make use of all those waste items rather than filling up the trash.

I get an odd amount of satisfaction out of compost videos

Your compost looks amazing !

👍👍👍👏👏👏 very good video!! Look at how well his garden produces for as far North as he is… because of this composting! The more work he does now the better he eats next winter! ❤️✝️🇺🇸

Nature gives and gives then gives more. Thank you for sharing your method. It's very inspiring.

I can’t wait until we have land so we can do all the homesteading things!

@sabl6381

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I'm using my current suburban lot as a stepping stone from my apartment balcony. I think in the long run I'll be happy I had to do everything gradually - it gives me time to learn and practice without being overwhelmed. God bless you and here's to realizing our farming dreams one day!

@VOsTravelwithKIDS

2 жыл бұрын

Yes! I do as much as I can as well 😊

@tanyascarbrough7204

2 жыл бұрын

Me too!☺️😌😋

@FebbieG

2 жыл бұрын

While you wait, do what you can where you are. :)

@justinomar9210

2 жыл бұрын

It's gonna be boring and a lot of work

Love this! I wish I had that much sawdust! I love composting! Great job!

@katewizer2736

2 жыл бұрын

See if you have a nearby sawmill, or ask around if anyone has sawdust (someone who trims trees, or someone who saws a lot for a wood burner. Maybe even a lumber yard)

@DearWokeChristian

2 жыл бұрын

What about ash from the grill? I could imagine that one could start a business going around cleaning restaurant's BBQ grills of ash. Then turn around and compost the ash and sell the compost.

@BonnieBlue2A

2 жыл бұрын

You can use wood chips.

@yvoennsche

2 жыл бұрын

@@BonnieBlue2A Wood chips take really long to break down though, even in an active pile

@ar2qureshi10

3 ай бұрын

Can I make compost from leftover flatbreads? Please answer

This is a good method as long as you have equipment to turn the pile once in a while and you are not in a hurry to finish it. I completely agree that you can include animal parts in your compost pile.

Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge about composting! I feel like Between my chickens, kitchen scraps and a pitchfork, I can go forth and create great compost for my garden! God bless!

Y’all are such a beautiful family! Thank you for blessing us with the wisdom you guys have have acquired over the years. Always enjoy your videos.

So much knowledge to help those of us who struggle with their compost. I finally dove into compost this year. Although my summer pile was all greens, now I have the carbon (leaves) I need to make it right. I should have a wonderful amount of compost to start fixing my corn garden gravel into a nice soil bed next year. Thank you so much for helping me understand this subject a little better. 💚🌞

No waste there! Great video! I do like to see the animals as well 🙂

I can't be the only one who keeps stopping by to see how this pile is coming along.

I always heard don't put animal products into the compost, but then I started researching additives for soil and one was bone meal. My question from then on was why can't I throw my old bones into my compost and avoid having to buy ANOTHER thing. I started doing it ANYWAYS. Now I know I'm not wrong.

@ethankaufman8577

2 жыл бұрын

Not only bone meal, but blood meal and feather meal are super common orga kc garden additives,

@bigdog517

2 жыл бұрын

Bones are one things, when composting meat ya gotta do it right. Can be left with a nasty kinda toxic mess otherwise. That's the only reason people say not to. Most won't take the time to do it right and end up with a mess.

@tindrums

2 жыл бұрын

Vermin will dig up your pile. Thats the only problem

well, i sure liked the way you did the compost pile with the sawdust/wood shaving and using the tractor to mix it. what broke my heart was to see 25lbs or more of gizzards in the scrap bucket. i see this a lot with off grid farmer and can't figure out why. i guess each to his own. by the way gizzards are very delicious/nutritious and easy to fix.

Thank you for the video, very informative. I was just talking about this with my wife a couple days ago, and you answered my questions on the safety aspect of doing this. I have enjoyed watching your videos over the last few years and how you moved to where you are now and how things have progressed. It is looking great too. Happy New Year!

I really liked this video. I especially liked the little tour through the barn showing your new troths and the animals.

Thank you for this video! I'm going to make my compost piles differently now. No more throwing out the blood, bones etc.

@jonald3

2 жыл бұрын

Don't use it on veggies. Unless you don't mind E Coli

@BonnieBlue2A

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonald3 Inaccurate comment. Hot composting eliminates that concern.

@jonald3

2 жыл бұрын

@@BonnieBlue2A lol okay. I work at a compost testing facility. I don't know anything 👍

@mikeypc3592

2 жыл бұрын

@@jonald3 how long do you think E coli survives in a compost pile? By the time compost is used, the e coli would've been destroyed a long time ago.

@jonald3

2 жыл бұрын

@@mikeypc3592 OK buddy! Im sure you know everything. Tell the state regulators or any other agency that keeps producers in check. Funny that you have to test for e coli to sell commercially. E coli can survive very long on any surface or soil. MONTHS long. Once a colony gets going you have to get rid of the compost.

Great video as always. Love seeing the animal set up. Thank you.

Really great video Josh. Perfect example of composting, thank you for taking the time to show people before and result of one year later. Hope you're all having a beautiful fall and good luck on your hunting season to add to the pile! 🍁🍂🐔

I enjoyed your video. I liked the way you showed the progress on the compost pile. Thanks for sharing

Very cool video! I have heard many on KZread say not to compost meat 🍖/ guts however, you Good Sir, are absolutely correct. It’s been done for 1,000’s of years. Great content! Thank you for posting.

This is awesome! Thanks for showing us this Josh, I will be trying it for sure!

Great video! I get SO TIRED of hearing everybody saying you can NOT put any meat in your compost! I live in suburban mpls/stp, so my small compost pile isn't enough to keep out scavengers, but if I could, I would put ALL of our kitchen waste in the compost!

This really was a great educational video for me to watch. I love seeing your passion for homesteading and btw, all those tall trees in the far background look wonderful!

Thanks, for sharing . I have seen this with dead animals, too(cows/pigs)...

Good looking compost folks. Love that you add ALL your animal harvest. I love wood shavings for carbon! Much quicker decomp.

I’ve been organic farming for 2 years now. At first I didn’t understand why the government was giving me a hard time. A couple years now and it’s very very clear why the G men hate organic farmers.

I hope you take us along for the whole ride!!!! I am learning so much from watching you. I need visuals!!! 😂 Thank you so much for your time and knowledge.

Great video! Love seeing yalls place and the animals!!!

Fantastic video! You articulate the ideas so well while working, a task I admire because it is such a challenge for me haha! Thank you

Thanks for the good info. I love those new feed troughs !!

If you live somewhere that people want to tell or just cause problems, actually have someone come in and dig a hole with a machine so it ramps downward. The pile won't look large then because most of it will be "underground " we fork up all of our horse crap every day and put it on our pile. By the next spring I till it into the garden. The garden is over a .25 acre and the topsoil is around 16 inches deep now.

Good info, as always. Thanks Josh.

Love the video, thank you very well put, I will use this video to do my own composting soon!

I love it. I do the same thing up in Canada. 150 meat birds and my sheep guts. I have a couple aerated bins so I only have to turn it once to make sure the edges are given a chance to heat up. Much better than it all going to the landfill.

Very interesting. Keep us posted mate! 👍

I love this channel!! I love their lifestyle!! 😃❤

Learned so much...thanks for sharing.

Great video and a good demonstration on how to make composte, i always wanted to know! Also i really like the nature, really lovely trees, it looks great

I love the feed areas! Great idea!

Great educational video. Thank you for sharing this information! 1) What wood are your shavings? 2) How do you compost human waste? 3) What food items do you feed the chickens instead of putting them in the compost pile? Thank you in advance for answering!

Absolutely loved this video! Just wondered why you are not feeding a bit of that stuff to the pigs! I have seen permaculture guys put whole carcasses in the compost successfully. Great instruction.

@theflamingone8729

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I thought that's what pigs were for?

Great vid and great way to recycle everything!

Your method works great for you and I wish I could compost like that. I do compost but I live in a neighborhood and not on a farm. So I have to use a no meat method and I also do not have a source for saw dust. We never have any left over meat, We eat it. LOL Enjoyed your video.

Hi there good video, I love composting! I've been adding blood fish and bone, azomite and organic potatoe fertilizer to help speed things up and add nutrients and minerals. I add leaves and grass nearly every day and turn once a week. Lovely stuff!👍😁 I'd add feather meal if I could get it! But I do mow up lots of feathers and the odd dead bird.

That stuff looks awesome!

Your finished pile of compost looks so rich, your garden beds are going to love it. I've buried whole carcasses of dead animals like chickens or rabbits in the middle of the pile. All we find after several months are the bones.

Love how at 7:03 when se spills the guts how the music gets hyped and uplifting 😂👍♥️

Awesome job! Thanks!

Great video! It’s great to see how to do this on a large practice scale. I need to do more of this on our place! Have you or anyone on here had any success just using wood chips instead of sawdust? Or would they need more than a year to decompose?

Carcass especially is a good materials for fertilizer. In Indonesia where a dead body is buried without any preservation process happening in their body. The body become a really good fertilizer. You can just look at a giant tree from afar then it's almost surely that the tree was planted on a cemetery.

Great video 📸

Where I am from (Hungary that is) we eat some of the innards of chickens like the liver, gizzards (cleaned!) and heart, we make soup from them adding vegetables to the mix. So we have less waste there, and then of course at the end of the day with poop composting they will be composted as well but first they go through my digestive tract :)

@absolutecharles

Жыл бұрын

After eating all that, are you still Hungary? ;) Yeah, the hearts and gizzards are excellent, I can't imagine why people don't eat them more... or at least feed them to the dogs and cats.

Question: How does the day to day collection of green material work in the house? Do you have a five gallon bucket or something that everybody knows to throw scraps in? Do you save the bones from meals and bone broth to add on the compost pile?

@lisathatcher3773

2 жыл бұрын

I would probably freeze it till you have enough.

@shelbysieg1607

2 жыл бұрын

I have a small one gallon bucket for food scraps. It get's emptied daily as the compost pile is on the way to the chickens. I just make a small hole in the top of the pile to make my deposit then cover with more wood chips.

@tehfuqizg0inon588

2 жыл бұрын

Question: can I compost my granny?

@theflamingone8729

2 жыл бұрын

Hi, I commented about bones earlier on if you're interested.

I can't remember if you've talked at all about your livestock and farm dogs. Time to go see!

Carbon matter is essential to avoid the stinky ammoniac odor. When you add and mix enough carbon matters with green or animal matters (at least twice the green matter) there will be enough carbon to bond with nitrogen instead of letting the nitrogen bonding with hydrogen to form the stinky gas NH3 (ammoniac). If ever you add to much brown matters, your compost pile will simply take more time to compost, there will be no stinky odor. However if there is not enough brown matter, no only the heap will give off an unpleasant ammonia smell but some nitrogen will also bond with oxygen to transform in NO2- and NO3- (nitrite and nitrate) which are toxic components.

Good afternoon from Auckland, New Zealand ... 🙂🙂🙂

As a homeschool mom, I appreciate your liberal and appropriate use of adverbs.

@FebbieG

2 жыл бұрын

This comment makes me smile. Lol

Awesome video

Great video!

Great video! Josh, it made me a little sad to see all those lovely gizzards. They aren’t hard to process and make the best winter soups with celery, onion and spices. Cook(after cleaning) in pressure cooker with broth. Add in rice and some greens. Yum. Just a thought.

Great video! Thanks very much

@HomesteadingFamily

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Question regarding sawdust/ wood shavings: is there a preferred wood? Hardwood, softwood, etc? Would pine set the alkalinity or acidity off to far one direction or the other?

@BonnieBlue2A

2 жыл бұрын

No black walnut, walnut, or pecan due to their allopathic nature.

Great video looks like you have a handle on it. Thanks for sharing.

great video, thanks

must have quite a bit of acreage to make so much garden leftovers! nice video

Awesome 👍

I compost everything including animal parts. What I do as a precaution so animals will leave it alone is I mix in ashes from my stoves and fireplaces. Ironically the hunters here have actually started to dump the carcasses in there too . What I've noticed though is that bones covered in ashes and soot dissolves much quicker. Nice to see that there are others doing this aswell:)

@alfonsomunoz4424

Жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

I love your property!!!

Great content! I saw the gizzards - I guess not everyone likes them..lol.

@elizabethcope1502

2 жыл бұрын

One lady on You Tube cans her gizzards. She said that canning them made them tender when she fried them. God bless.

I compost all our food scraps in our big city garden but we end up taking all the animal waste to landfill. To me it makes no sense. I have to show this to my husband. At least we could just burry it somewhere. Thanks for this awesome video. One day i hope i can put this into practice.

Can I use weeds like scotch broom blackberry vines and other forest cover to turn in compost for my garden or will the seeds survive? I hope that's not a dumb question . Thank for the channel I been binging . God bless your family and your granny's stories were touching

Found a dead badger to start off my “ gloop soup” for fertilising my soil. Stinks to high heaven. Adding garden waste too. Browns, greens and butchering? Noted.

I am giving you a new super hero nickname Dr.Comp!

No sawmills, check with local tree cutting companies. Sometimes local municipalities also have trimmings. Hope this helps. God bless.

You guys ever thought about doing the aerobic Johnson su bioreactor. It's a pretty cool way of making aerobic compost and they kinda can stay in their own spot for awhile until they finish

@pyrorc

2 жыл бұрын

You don't even need to touch it unless you're doing the initial turn

In Karachi Pakistan we have compost of Animal remainings from slaughterhouses usually called "intestine manure" in our Urdu language "Ojhri ki khad" very rich in fertility Once I purchased it from nursery he has fresh stock of it and I saw steam coming out from it when he put a shovel in it to fill my 50kg Bag he charged me 150 rupees almost a 1 USD for it.

Can you use pine shavings on compost and can you use it for mulch ??

We pressure cook chicken carcasses with a bunch of veggies for stock. Are those leftovers good for compost? I always thought it already spent all its nutrients.

Thanks for informtions, in indonesia worm for typus

Good video! BTW

Question please. I just got 9 cubic yds of mushroom compost. I covered it with a tarp. We get a lot of rain here in Ontario in October then, in November extreme cold and snow. Is it alright to cover it ?

Would like to know where you get that fine wood shavings from? Love your teachings.

Would hydrated lime help with breaking down the offal/bones/feathers etc.faster? I'm wondering if that is OK in and organic method of compost?

On a smaller scale, what I do is just put all my kitchen waste, whether it is meat or whatever scraps into a bucket and store it up. (well, I actually strore up bones and carrot tops and whatnot in the freezer and make stock, but eventually the solids from that stock end up in the same bucket). Then I just let it stew in the bucket until the next time I turn my compost (I have a 3 bay pallet compost area and I just rotate the piles back and forth). Drop that bucket of kitchen scraps right in the centre of the pile as I'm re-stacking it, borken up a little with some of the other compost materials. The animals won't be able to get to it, nor would they want to, since it's gonna be really hot there in the middle. Before this, when I was just throwing the scraps on the pile, I had to watch what I put into it, and even if I did, I still had problems with rats. Since I started doing it this way, no more rats. I also fill milk bottles with urine for use on the garden, as compost (and pretty much any 'organic' fertilizer) is a still going to be low in nitrogen on the PNK ratios for most garden foodcrops. Great for building soil and holding your P and K, but N needs regular replenishment, especially with crops like tomatoes.

I love the video, I'm dying to know where you got so much wood shavings? I would love to see a follow up video where you compost the cows, pigs and sheep.

@simonbuttigieg8390

2 жыл бұрын

And to think that i pay a fortune to buy shavings

You could keep any of the organs or gizzards that you don't use for yourself, you could keep for your dogs and cats. I keep these things for my dogs and they LOVE them.

I love this! I was wondering does this pile see you through the year or do you also need to invest in outside compost too?

@zombiemaster123456

Жыл бұрын

if he needed more he would just make more. seems like he can make as much as he wants

We have a city home, where we want to do compose on a daily basis. Any advice?

So I am brand new to everything, and I came across this video. With garden waste for anyone, what prevents stuff from actually regrowing in the pile. Like undetected seeds, weeds, and things like that. Is it the cover that prevents the sun from getting to it? Thank you for any information or info from anyone responding. 😊

@mitchspurlock3626

2 жыл бұрын

The high heat and moisture either kill it or rot it.

I didn't realise the tractor shovel was raised ,I thought it was flat on the ground ,then the dog disappeared! 😁 Great video ! Can I ask why you didn't feed the offal to the pigs ?